PSA
There cannot be an alternate treatment in order for the FDA to issue an Emergency Use Authorization for the vaccine. The vaccine has to be the only solution available.
That is all.
yes and they could have changed the rules for an all the above approach but then pfizer et al would not have had their big payday.
But is that really why?
There ARE alternate treatments—expensive ones such as monoclonal antibody infusion (it’s being paid for even if the cost isn’t being felt by the recipient.)
Why the EUA for monoclonal antibody infusion but not for ivermectin? Why does the EUA for the vaccines still hold when certain treatments are available?
While I believe that was the motivation for failing to adequately test alternative medicines, they could have easily and quickly gotten Congress to pass an exception for Covid vaccines and anything else they asked for. And then they would have had both treatments and vaccines.
Failure to pursue the legislative route was criminal.